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ubuntu-cve-2015-0856

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2015-11-24 20:59

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

daemon/Greeter.cpp in sddm before 0.13.0 does not properly disable the KDE crash handler, which allows local users to gain privileges by crashing a greeter when using certain themes, as demonstrated by the plasma-workspace breeze theme.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)

low

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0856	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0856	REPORT

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CVE-2015-0856 (GCVE-0-2015-0856)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-11-24 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:26

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

debian

References

5 references

URL	Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77099	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki/0.13.0-Release-…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/14/2	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://github.com/sddm/sddm/commit/4cfed6b0a6255…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2015-10-14 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2015-0856 (GCVE-0-2015-0856)

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